Alex Benjamin
@opus110.bsky.social
Quand je serai grand, je veux être Gordon Parks.
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Alex Benjamin
@opus110.bsky.social
· Feb 11
Dorothea Lange
Kern County, California
November 1938
Rien de plus à dire, au fond.
Kern County, California
November 1938
Rien de plus à dire, au fond.
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Now that’s a lede.
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Now that’s a lede.
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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In solidarity with of Fall Of Freedom, Monroe Gallery presents a Pop Up exhibit now Online and in the Gallery November 18 - 23 of photographs documenting people struggling for their freedom; their right to live without fear, their right to speak and the right to protest inequities.
monroegallery.com
monroegallery.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
In solidarity with of Fall Of Freedom, Monroe Gallery presents a Pop Up exhibit now Online and in the Gallery November 18 - 23 of photographs documenting people struggling for their freedom; their right to live without fear, their right to speak and the right to protest inequities.
monroegallery.com
monroegallery.com
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Le Québec veut accueillir des centres de données et leur offrir de l’électricité propre.
Réflexions mexicaines pour ces nombreux politiciens qui espèrent profiter de l’engouement.
ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/balado...
Réflexions mexicaines pour ces nombreux politiciens qui espèrent profiter de l’engouement.
ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/balado...
Les centres de données qui dérangent : le cas du Mexique | OHdio | Radio-Canada
Écoutez gratuitement l’épisode du balado Ça s'explique : Les centres de données qui dérangent : le cas du Mexique
ici.radio-canada.ca
November 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Le Québec veut accueillir des centres de données et leur offrir de l’électricité propre.
Réflexions mexicaines pour ces nombreux politiciens qui espèrent profiter de l’engouement.
ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/balado...
Réflexions mexicaines pour ces nombreux politiciens qui espèrent profiter de l’engouement.
ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/balado...
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Des Autochtones conservent désormais un marais salé au Nouveau-Brunswick
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/220...
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/220...
25 hectares de marais salé désormais protégés
La Première Nation de Fort Folly (Amlamgog) se voit confier la conservation d’une terre marécageuse dans le sud-est du Nouveau-Brunswick.
ici.radio-canada.ca
November 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Des Autochtones conservent désormais un marais salé au Nouveau-Brunswick
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/220...
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/220...
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Reposted by Alex Benjamin
Sixty-five years ago today, four first-graders desegregated New Orleans's public schools: Ruby Bridges at William Frantz Elementary School, and Leona Tate, Tessie Provost, and Gail Etienne at McDonogh 19 Elementary School. They faced violent mobs and threats to their lives. They were 6 years old. 🗃
November 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Sixty-five years ago today, four first-graders desegregated New Orleans's public schools: Ruby Bridges at William Frantz Elementary School, and Leona Tate, Tessie Provost, and Gail Etienne at McDonogh 19 Elementary School. They faced violent mobs and threats to their lives. They were 6 years old. 🗃
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Le rap américain est-il vraiment en déclin ?
Pour la première fois depuis 1990, aucun titre de rap américain n'était fin octobre dans les 40 premières places du classement du Bilboard Hot 100, référence des classements musicaux américains.
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Pour la première fois depuis 1990, aucun titre de rap américain n'était fin octobre dans les 40 premières places du classement du Bilboard Hot 100, référence des classements musicaux américains.
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Le rap américain est-il vraiment en déclin ?
Pour la première fois depuis 1990, aucun titre de rap américain n'était fin octobre dans les 40 premières places du classement du Bilboard Hot 100, référence des classements musicaux américains. Dans ...
www.radiofrance.fr
November 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Le rap américain est-il vraiment en déclin ?
Pour la première fois depuis 1990, aucun titre de rap américain n'était fin octobre dans les 40 premières places du classement du Bilboard Hot 100, référence des classements musicaux américains.
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Pour la première fois depuis 1990, aucun titre de rap américain n'était fin octobre dans les 40 premières places du classement du Bilboard Hot 100, référence des classements musicaux américains.
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
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“Political experts confirm that authoritarianism is rising globally and the number of liberal democracies is shrinking.”
cultmtl.com/2025/11/demo...
cultmtl.com/2025/11/demo...
Democracy, you in danger, girl
According to the Global State of Democracy 2025 report, 2024 was the 9th consecutive year in which more countries experienced democratic decline than improvement.
cultmtl.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:37 PM
“Political experts confirm that authoritarianism is rising globally and the number of liberal democracies is shrinking.”
cultmtl.com/2025/11/demo...
cultmtl.com/2025/11/demo...
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“The Brothers Karamazov” asks what we are living for, and it “seeks the answer in the little life, among the small people, in the frail, the fragile, the fallible, the failed,” Karl Ove Knausgaard writes. http://nyer.cm/za7cz5U
The Light of “The Brothers Karamazov”
Although Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote with wildness and urgency, he patiently insisted on asking an essential question: What are we living for?
nyer.cm
November 13, 2025 at 3:30 AM
“The Brothers Karamazov” asks what we are living for, and it “seeks the answer in the little life, among the small people, in the frail, the fragile, the fallible, the failed,” Karl Ove Knausgaard writes. http://nyer.cm/za7cz5U
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Women are increasingly seen riding motorbikes in Iran's capital, where laws and religious mores once barred women from motorbikes.
Women riding the streets of Tehran on motorbikes is the latest sign of Iran's societal change
Women are increasingly seen riding motorbikes in Iran's capital, where laws and religious mores once barred women from motorbikes.
bit.ly
November 12, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Women are increasingly seen riding motorbikes in Iran's capital, where laws and religious mores once barred women from motorbikes.
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Female politicians such as Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum face ‘backlash driven by discrimination’
Female politicians such as Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum face ‘backlash driven by discrimination’
Assault on Mexican president highlights abuse faced by women in politics and ‘reinforces patriarchal boundaries’
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Female politicians such as Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum face ‘backlash driven by discrimination’
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Reposted by Alex Benjamin
The man who shot Al Capone: Jun Fujita’s Chicago – in pictures
The man who shot Al Capone: Jun Fujita’s Chicago – in pictures
Disasters, riots, gangsters and construction … early 20th-century Chicago is seen here through the lens of the pioneering Japanese-American photojournalist, poet and artist Jun Fujita
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:33 AM
The man who shot Al Capone: Jun Fujita’s Chicago – in pictures
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Never read him. Never wrote about him. "Murakami, conversely, has faced accusations of emotional detachment and circular storytelling. Yet, writer Rebecca Solnit defends his approach...." Did AI write this? pakobserver.net/lawrence-and...
Lawrence and Haruki Embodiment and reflection - Pakistan Observer
IN the vast landscape of world literature, a few writers have explored the depths of human experience as vividly as D.H. Lawrence and Haruki
pakobserver.net
November 8, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Never read him. Never wrote about him. "Murakami, conversely, has faced accusations of emotional detachment and circular storytelling. Yet, writer Rebecca Solnit defends his approach...." Did AI write this? pakobserver.net/lawrence-and...
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Meet Georgia South and Amy Love, the London rock duo known as the Nova Twins. These "massive pedal nerds" turn all the way up for Tiny Desk. n.pr/4nKv1G7
Nova Twins: Tiny Desk Concert
Meet Georgia South and Amy Love, the London rock duo known as the Nova Twins. These "massive pedal nerds" turn all the way up for Tiny Desk.
n.pr
November 7, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Meet Georgia South and Amy Love, the London rock duo known as the Nova Twins. These "massive pedal nerds" turn all the way up for Tiny Desk. n.pr/4nKv1G7
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CARTOON OF THE DAY
(From @mluckovichajc)
(From @mluckovichajc)
November 7, 2025 at 2:01 AM
CARTOON OF THE DAY
(From @mluckovichajc)
(From @mluckovichajc)
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Les gardiens de la langue se rassemblent pour préserver les langues autochtones
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/220...
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/220...
Les gardiens de la langue se rassemblent à Saskatoon
Le rassemblement, réunit des professeurs, des universitaires et toutes celles et ceux qui œuvrent chaque jour à la préservation des langues autochtones.
ici.radio-canada.ca
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Les gardiens de la langue se rassemblent pour préserver les langues autochtones
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/220...
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/220...
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#Georgia: We urge the immediate release of acclaimed poet and former president of PEN Georgia Paata Shamugia, who faces up to 15 days in prison for taking part in peaceful protests.
Read more ⬇️
georgiatoday.ge/police-arres...
Read more ⬇️
georgiatoday.ge/police-arres...
Police arrest poet Paata Shamugia
Police have arrested Georgian poet Paata Shamugia during last night’s protest in Tbilisi. Reportedly, criminal police officers detained him near
georgiatoday.ge
November 5, 2025 at 11:31 AM
#Georgia: We urge the immediate release of acclaimed poet and former president of PEN Georgia Paata Shamugia, who faces up to 15 days in prison for taking part in peaceful protests.
Read more ⬇️
georgiatoday.ge/police-arres...
Read more ⬇️
georgiatoday.ge/police-arres...
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"Pour l’année 2025, Montréal compte 4 des 10 compteurs de pistes cyclables montrant la plus grande affluence en Amérique du Nord. Si on prend un mois d’été typique, par exemple juin 2025, le REV Saint-Denis arrive au 2e rang en Amérique du Nord et au 6e rang en Europe."
Deux pistes cyclables à Montréal qui compétitionnent avec trois ponts de New York. Je pense que nous ne réalisons pas la chance que nous avons que le vélo prenne une aussi grande place dans notre mobilité collective à Montréal.
www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/chr...
www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/chr...
November 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
"Pour l’année 2025, Montréal compte 4 des 10 compteurs de pistes cyclables montrant la plus grande affluence en Amérique du Nord. Si on prend un mois d’été typique, par exemple juin 2025, le REV Saint-Denis arrive au 2e rang en Amérique du Nord et au 6e rang en Europe."
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BREAKING: The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees admitted to the U.S. to 7,500 and they will be mostly white South Africans.
Trump administration limits number of refugees to 7,500 and they're mostly white South Africans
The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees admitted to the U.S. to 7,500 and they will be mostly white South Africans.
bit.ly
October 31, 2025 at 1:59 AM
🤔
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Dire que la grève a été suspendue pendant le Grand Prix de Formule 1… 🙄
La grève à la STM : une « catastrophe » pour le Salon du livre de Montréal
Le DG du Salon du livre de Montréal appelle à la suspension des mesures de grève pendant l'événement, du 19 au 23 novembre prochains.
ici.radio-canada.ca
October 30, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Dire que la grève a été suspendue pendant le Grand Prix de Formule 1… 🙄
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Reposted by Alex Benjamin
Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé
https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/1208367
https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/1208367
October 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé
https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/1208367
https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/1208367